Do Easter Eggers lay later?

[aart]

Today

Welcome to BYC!
Good pics here, she looks pretty ready to me.
Do you free range? She may be laying in range area.
You know EE's may not lay blue/green eggs.

You could always do a butt check, under the tail always tells the tale.
Yeahyeah, sounds gross, butt(haha) a good thing to know how to do.

Vent Appearance:
Dry, tight, and smaller - usually not laying.
Moist, wide, and larger - usually laying.

Pelvic Points, feel for the 2 bony points(pelvic bones F-F) on either side of vent:
Less than 2 fingertip widths apart usually means not laying.
More than 2 fingertip widths apart usually means laying.
(Spacing is relative with chickens size and humans finger size.)

 

[Bonniebooboo]

Welcome to BYC!
Good pics here, she looks pretty ready to me.
Do you free range? She may be laying in range area.
You know EE's may not lay blue/green eggs.

You could always do a butt check, under the tail always tells the tale.
Yeahyeah, sounds gross, butt(haha) a good thing to know how to do.

Vent Appearance:
Dry, tight, and smaller - usually not laying.
Moist, wide, and larger - usually laying.

Pelvic Points, feel for the 2 bony points(pelvic bones F-F) on either side of vent:
Less than 2 fingertip widths apart usually means not laying.
More than 2 fingertip widths apart usually means laying.
(Spacing is relative with chickens size and humans finger size.)

I like the diagram!

 

[Bonniebooboo]

My EE pullets started laying and then seemed to diminish, I would find one now and then in the nest and then couldn't find any, wondered why the little turds quit, looked and looked wasn't finding any thing. we had a storm and I have a big dog ball which blew around and knocked some weeds down just outside the coop in the cow pasture and here is what I found. 11 green eggs.

I locked their butts up for a few days and got a few eggs in the nests, let them out again and here is where the pullets decided they wanted to nest for a couple of days. 4 green eggs and 3 tan/cream ones from other pullets. This is what happens when I try to be nice. I have to spend more time egg hunting every day. and then they move locations again.

That's my 4-wheeler basket in case you couldn't tell.

 

[Bonniebooboo]

Here are a couple more places I find eggs sometimes and there are even more places I haven't taken pics of yet. Lawn sweeper and the tractor seat. We have found eggs on the hay bales, in the hay loft, in the hay feeder in the bull pen, in the horse feeder, on top of the rabbit cage, multiple places in the barns. It is so nice when they actually use the nest boxes in the coop. So if you like to Easter Egg hunt everyday, free range is the best way to get to do that.

 

[junebuggena]

I've never had an Easter Egger (all the birds pictured in this thread are Easter Eggers, by the way) start laying later than 25 weeks, even in the dead of winter. They really need to be kept on a higher protein feed, like starter or flock raiser till they are laying. Starting layer feed too early can really slow down their development.